Movietone’s coverage of the Hindenburg disaster – filmed by Al Gold, Larry Kennedy and Deon De Titta. Sound engineer Addison Trice.
“Hindenburg’s” fate adds another victim to toll of airships. The doom of the great Zeppelin which has been graphically told in newspapers, was shot in full by a newsreel camera. We issue it as news, and with sympathy for those involved or bereaved by the calamity. Described by Ivan Scott.
Scenes of the airship in flight. Shots of the ship in the air on fire and falling to earth. Scenes after the fire. Skeleton of the airship on ground. Hindenburg Disaster.
From “Movietone Presents the 20th Century” by Lawrence Cohn. “A superb example of Movietone’s on-the-spot coverage was the filming of the tragic Hindenburg disaster on a cloudy, overcast day at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937. Undoubtedly one of the most dramatic newsreel events of all time, the explosion reduced the dirigible to a smoldering mass of ruins within seconds, and several members of the New York staff were directly under the huge airship when it exploded. The Hindenburg had made numerous Atlantic crossings, and the one of May 6th was expected to be no different from the many previous routine landings. Despite a history of nothing unusual happening, this symbol of Hitler’s Nazi Germany was covered at every landing by Movietone cameramen because of Editor-in-Chief Truman Talley’s intuitive feeling that someday the Hindenburg would explode. Therefore, despite the protests of the various camera crews, one was always present and Talley’s intuition resulted in the timely coverage of one of the most famous events of all time.”
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Cant even play btd6 in 1997
Psyop! Planned. This tech was intentionally removed for nefarious purposes, from the common man. Imagine the opportunities if this tech was still allowed for the public today.
"Bro it's a canon event"
Thats gotta hurt!
This is a beautiful footage. This fire seems fantastic !
The fact that anyone lived is remarkable… prayers to the fallen 🙏
the main problem with the Hindenburg is the fact that the manufacturer used hydrogen gas instead of helium as the lifting gas for the Hindenburg, hydrogen is a very dangerous gas because it is highly flammable. Before the Hindenburg was built, other rigid airships were built using helium as the main or only source of lifting gas, unlike hydrogen, helium is not flammable, so it is a much safer gas to use. But helium was also more expensive so the Hindenburg builders cut corners and used the much more dangerous hydrogen instead which was cheaper to produce. Once again another example of greedy companies putting profits before people's safety.
my brain can never compute how FAST the flames engulfed the entire ship
Hahahahaha 😜😜😜 the rich ALWAYS want to be special. Now you are. Titanic, Hindenburg, etc…
Like titanic but airborne
Its a moab guys put down a moab mauler
This what happens when i put my free 5-0-0 dartling gunner
Bloons td 6 in real life
There's 2 version of them
2/3 survived but how many of those were horribly burned? The intense heat would almost be enough to want to be dead.
0:38 Led Zeppelin Reference???????
Is this comparable to the Titanic? It feels like it is
where is the famous original live voice of the reporter`?
Led Zeppelin remastered the whole audio
Camera man missed the most important part
Noo the monkeys got to the moab!!!!
Nazi Germany the nation that owned these airships hid the destruction of the hind from their nation until the end of the war. You can see it barely but it had two giant swastikas on its tail. It flew over America a lot before the end. Different era of thinking about Germany than cameras and historians can imagine. They were top dog
Now we have commercial Boeing flights crashing straight into the ground from computer glitches and no one bats an eye…. They have been worse than this Hindenburg disaster, with hundreds of passengers dying instantly. And people talk about it for 2 days then forget…
Are you sure about those hydrogen cars? 🤔
There was a movie in the 70’s called the hindenburg. Its 90% fact, 10% speculative fiction, all wrapped around a politically charged detective story.
Holy crap, I thought it was a sure no survivors situation looking at it. So weird how this tragedy is just a pop culture reference for many shows…it must have traumatized every person who survived or witnessed!
86 years ago today is when this happened. RIP to everyone who died from this disaster
RIP
To the 36 passengers and crew who were killed in the Hindenburg disaster